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Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Classical Indian dances are among the most graceful and beautiful in the world. Dancers use their eyes, hands, arms, legs, hips, knees, waist and feet to express various emotions like love, anger, hatred and amusement. They dance to vocal and instrumental accompaniment.

There are five major styles of Indian classical dance: Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Odissi, Kathakali and Manipuri. Though these dances were developed in different regions of India, they share the common thread of telling stories of Hindu gods.

Bharatanatyam is a style of dance from the south of India. It is probably one of the oldest styles of Indian classical dance. A solo dancer performs it. Kathak is a style of dance of north India and was created in the courts of the Mughal rulers. It involves energetic footwork and expressive eye movements. Kathakali comes from the state of Kerala. The entire dance is like a play and the dancers dress in enormous, colourful costumes. They also wear heavy make-up on their faces, which they have to learn to do by themselves, and which takes several hours to get on. There was a time when only men performed the Kathakali dance but now women also perform it. Manipuri dance is typical style from Manipur in north eastern India. Odissi is from Orissa. It is similar to Bharatanatyam but the dancer makes a lot of different stunning poses in this dance. Initially only women performed Odissi but later men dressed as women for performances.

Indian classical dancers dance to _______.

A)  Vocal accompaniment        

B)  Instrumental accompaniment

C)  Emotions                     

D)  Both [a] and [b]

E)  None of these